virgin is my fav of the newcomers…mainly because i hope their colour scheme is red and black, which happens to be my fav colour combination! also i like their innovation and outside the box (or tunnel) design approach

CFD is for analysis. It cannot ‘produce’ anything – the designers still need to create new ideas.

I think not having any wind tunnel testing is a bit silly personally. CFD methods cannot match wind tunnel tests yet which is well known in the aerospace industry, but that isn’t to say that the gap isn’t closing.

It’s still too early not to complement CFD with wind tunnel testing IMHO.